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Researcher gets UNMC support, NIH funding on a path to success

The college of pharmacy’s Jingjing Sun, PhD, is researching nanomedicine that can be administered safely and effectively to certain cancer patients.

Sep 25, 2024

Jingjing Sun, PhD, has received layers of intentional support from around UNMC as she arrived at the UNMC College of Pharmacy about a year ago and established her lab.

Alumni creates scholarship for UNMC medical student at UNK

The gift from William Northwall, MD, will support future physicians training at the Douglas A. Kristensen Rural Health Education Complex in Kearney.

Sep 25, 2024

William Northwall, MD

CHRI and MMI to host pediatric neuroscience mini-summit

The event will be held Friday, Oct. 4, at the UNMC Maurer Center for Public Health.

Sep 25, 2024

Summit promotional image showing a researcher

New faculty spotlight: Armin Nowroozpoordailami, MD

Dr. Nowroozpoordailami is an instructor with the UNMC Department of Emergency Medicine.

Sep 25, 2024

Armin Nowroozpoordailami, MD

Omaha’s great apes in caring hands

A partnership between UNMC and the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium brings preventative, specialized health care – such as echocardiograms – to Omaha’s gorillas.

Sep 25, 2024

Omaha's great apes in caring hands

MMI autism clinic to open in Fremont this month

The Munroe Meyer Institute’s first Autism Care for Toddlers Clinic outside of the Omaha metropolitan area is set to open later this month.

Sep 24, 2024

Amber Paden, program coordinator at the new ACT Clinic in Fremont

Midtown street to be ceremonially named Benschoter Avenue

Reba Benschoter, PhD, was a groundbreaking UNMC faculty member in distance learning and telemedicine, and her husband, Benny, was a pioneer in broadcasting.

Sep 24, 2024

Reba Benschoter is in the video control room at Nebraska Psychiatric Institute in 1967.

New faculty spotlight: John Derr, MD

Dr. Derr is an instructor in the UNMC Department of Emergency Medicine.

Sep 24, 2024

John Derr, MD

Matt Blomstedt, PhD, named chief university lobbyist

Dr. Blomstedt is a lifelong Nebraskan with decades of experience in education and public policy.

Sep 23, 2024

Matt Blomstedt, PhD

One shared name for multiple cancer care locations 

Four locations across Nebraska will share Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center name, including the newest center in Kearney. 

Sep 23, 2024

An artist's rendering of the Nebraska Medicine Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center location in Kearney, Nebraska.